Fecha Publicación: 10-11-2023

A state-run election is under course in Mexico: opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez is under fire from President Manuel Andrés López Obrador (AMLO). Since AMLO cannot run for reelection, Xóchitl will compete against his hand-picked candidate, Claudia Sheimbaum. Hopefully, Mexicans will go to the polls in June 2024 in unprecedented numbers. That is the only way to save our democracy and choose the next president, the full Senate and House, nine governorships, an array of mayorships and other elected posts. Mexicans will choose between Xóchitl´s proposal for democracy, growth through energy transition and economic integration to North America and Claudia´s continuity of AMLO´s so-called Fourth Transformation resulting in democratic backsliding, support for fossil fuels, state monopolies, USMCA contention, and unprecedented violence.

Although AMLO has drawn on every resource available to convince Mexicans that the opposition does not have a chance against his MORENA party, there are still seven months left before the election and many things can happen.

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